Islands.com on MSN

Nestled Within California's 'Gateway To Yosemite' Is A Serene Park Brimming With Art And Creativity

This Gold Rush era town hides a beautiful park that showcases the area's unbridled creativity through unique sculptures and a ...
Green Matters on MSN

From Camping to BASE Jumping: Visitors’ Activities Create Long-Term Harm to Yosemite’s Resources

Amid the U.S. shutdown, parks open to visitors are prone to reckless exploitation, and monitoring them has become difficult.

The 5 most common hiking emergencies and how to prevent them

We talk often in the outdoors community about the risks that wild animals, like bears, mountain lions and rattlesnakes, pose.

Liberty runs away with timely SYRL football win over Centennial

Defending South Yosemite River League football champion Liberty hasn’t had the kind of season one would expect, but that doesn’t mean there’s not still some fight left in the Patriots. Handing ...

Has Yosemite National Park been taken over by BASE jumpers and squatters?

During the federal shutdown, Yosemite National Park remains open but largely unstaffed. Longtime park supporters warn of ...
The Union Democrat

OUT THERE: Fall colors and first-hand observations in Yosemite amid federal government shutdown

Two of my buddies wanted to go early to Yosemite Valley to walk up the Yosemite Falls Trail to Eagle Peak, and two others ...
Opinion

What’s the Trump Administration’s End Game for the National Parks? I Saw It in Yosemite.

During the Civil War, Congress passed the 1864 Yosemite Act, which designated the Valley and the Mariposa Grove as the first federally authorized park. (These areas would be held in trust by the state ...
Astronomy on MSN

Galaxyrise over Yosemite

Chris Cook from Long Beach, California Half Dome and Nevada Fall are lit by a crescent Moon in this nightscape taken at Yosemite National Park’s Glacier Point. The imager used a modified Canon DSLR ...